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August 23rd, 2014
RATINGS: General Hospital Shows Gains In Total Viewers and Women 18-49 Demo!

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The ratings are out for the week of August 11th to August 15th, and it was ABC’s General Hospital who had a solid week showing gains in the all important total viewers numbers. GH while remaining in third place among the four soaps, added +75,000 to its tally, bringing its total to 2,879,000.

The only other soap to shows gains was NBC’s Days of our Lives which added +59,000 and came in with a weekly total of 2,463,000. General Hospital also was up in the key women’s 18-49 demo adding +17,000, and being only one of two soaps in that demographic to be on the plus side (Y&R being the other with +7,000)! GH continues to be giving Y&R a run for the money, inching up and not too far away from the number one position.

DAYS saw gains in the women’s 18-34 demo, being the only soap in that demographic to add viewers. And all four network soaps saw gains in the 25-54 demo category. CBS soaps; The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful continue to be at #1 and #2 positions in total viewers despite a week of losing viewers. View the complete ratings picture courtesy of SON here.

So what do you think about the ratings performance this week of General Hospital and Days of our Lives? Where they the best soaps on the air for the ratings week in question? What story did you enjoy? Share your thoughts below!

Not when you consider their numbers are included with the fact that they are broadcasted in Europe.

Shay replied August 23rd, 2014 at 7:02 pm

Harry….I’m responding to your post on another thread regarding MF notices. Generally speaking, I get mine in my main inbox…maybe your spam filter is preventing you from receiving them? Just a thought….However, there is something peculiar about the whole process…I have gotten replies that never made it to post, and I am thinking that they had been moderated out of existence for online perusal, but still sent to me, which is great. I like to reply to any comment I receive as long as they are decent and respectful, but the problem is that the replies you receive personally are blind and you cannot ascertain the identity author unless they are also posted online. (Sometimes you can guess according to personal writing style or subject matter, but one still likes to be sure.) Conversely, there have been numerous occasions when something I wrote was not deemed suitable (I guess…) for posting, but I had assumed(?) that at least the remarks ended up in the inbox of the intended recipient….now I am not so certain! I understand that not everything we write will pass muster to make it online, but I do wish there were a way to insure that the person for whom the response was intended does indeed receive it, and with proper identification of the sender. (Just a bit of nitpicking of the system….) I also suppose a lot of these oversights could simply be attributed to technical issues. At any rate, just so you know, I often send little replies to you….I ever so enjoy your wit and cultural references, thus, I like to show my appreciation! (It makes me sad to think that you never receive them!) Oh, and speaking of that subject, your recent quip regarding young Spencer’s whereabouts during his “m.i.a.” storyline was classic….my compliments!

Shay replied August 23rd, 2014 at 7:13 pm

Meant “identity of the author”…..my bad!

harry replied August 24th, 2014 at 11:42 am

I sometimes do see your positive responses, Shay. But it’s only because I went back to look. Comments like yours are the ones I want to see! I did see your response to my comment pertaining to the whereabouts of Spencer (answer–in that great abyss called Alexis’s cleavage). I responded in kind but the post did not appear.
However, my missing comments is not always a bad thing. Inherently, I am a bit of a coward. Sometimes I am that person who throws a rock and then runs away.
And speaking of rocks, cracks and the abyss, this morning’s earthquake made me feel as nauseated as I feel when watching Alexis and Julian make out.

Shay replied August 24th, 2014 at 8:23 pm

Oh, dear….I hope you are feeing better, Harry!!! I saw the news coverage of the earthquake….quite a fright you had there! Do take care!!!! Having said that, I’m firmly convinced that the “Mystery of the Lost Replies” (Sounds like a Nancy Drew book title…..) can be attributed to the MF moderators having to work overtime to deal with all of our snarky bon mots and snappy rejoinders, hence, I’m not surprised that a fair amount of our comments go m.i.a. (aka, unposted/unsent)….Oh well, it’s certainly NOT for our lack of trying!!!! (Let battle continue…..) Lastly, on the subject of our favorite exhibitionist, Alexis, perhaps we should give that poor insatiable woman a break….after all, she does now have to replenish her entire supply of push-up bras and age-inappropriate, immodestly revealing “top-wear” since her previous collection was completely blown to smithereens.

Young Bold and Days are fabulous but GH is such a mess I fast forward thru it. The last episode I sat thru was the “epic” one when the gay three way was gonna happen. It was ok but the only fun part was Piffy and Milo making googly eyes at each other. The rest was just “ehh?”

Maybe if Bo would return…that could help get an increase…but then im still waiting for Don Craig to return from the mailbox and Neil to return from checking with his patients(doctors sure keep long hours…lol…both disapearing over 20 years ago…must be visiting other missing Salemites like the long forgoten Tommy Horton and several others plus maybe even Justin…maybe Bo and co. are lost in Melaswen or the Horton attic…wish Jen would go there?…lol

Ratings are somewhat good news…better if they continously climb…villians returning to GH in the fall…will it help or hurt…i still think why not add some heroes too to balance it all out…why not go all the way with the corny and campy stuff and add Batman and Robin from the 60s cult classic…Nik would be a great Batman with his huge mansion and because he does have a butler named Alfred…lol…but i suggest Nathan in the role since the actor and Adam West who played Batman are both wooden performers…lol…however, Nathan seems a little better…lol…Dante can play Robin, the Boy Wonder because i ‘wonder’ if he will ever solve a case…lol…with Nancy ‘Monotone’ Drew played by Sam helping with the latest mystery…lol…togehter they will battle the evil Mr.Freeze played by Victor Cassidine and prevent him from defrosting his Frozen Family, Franco as the Joker who has been a joke since arriving in PC, Levi as The Riddler who i hope they’ll get Rid of, Luke as Two Face(or is he from Dick Tracy…who cares soaps always use plots from other shows…lol) and Nina as Catwoman prowling around on all twos ready to pounce on her next victim with her perrrrrfect sidekick Rosa-’Hello Pussy’-lee…MeeeOuch!…LOL!!!

Not going to happen, Brian. Too many disgruntled GH fans tuning out.
And hearing that there is only going to be a greater influx of villains is really a turn off for me. Wow, Port Charles really needs to secure the borders.
If there are too many villains it follows you have no one for whom to root and intriguing storylines will not follow.

Harry.
the bored Y&R fans who dropped out of Y&R are coming to GH..
And– GH, a couple of times, did top out at 3 million,,
(wait for winter.. it’s gonna roll !
Root for the bad guys, Harry.. !! they will never bore you

GH50 replied August 23rd, 2014 at 6:19 pm

Harry-I think that’s correct about disgruntled fans tuning out. GH is pretty stagnant and their ceiling seems to be just under 3 million on average. Hitting 3 million or a little above on a day or two doesn’t count for anything, it’s about averages, that’s how advertising is priced and sold.

I think GH gains viewers with some of the stunts and castings. like Stafford, but they lose viewers by throwing vets in the back, so the gains are offset and the numbers never really go anywhere. How many more fans can you bring with additional castings and how many fans do you lose with those new actors?

The largest pool of potential GH viewers are long time viewers, not people who have never watched and all of a sudden are going to think GH is cool. And they are not all senior citizens who you think are not in a desired demo either.

There are plenty of people in the higher range of 18-49 who tuned out years ago and who would come back if GH was back, if characters they new were on more prominently, if core families were put front and center. Plenty of people in the 35-45 age range who watched in the 90′s and 2000′s, even eighties, who would come back. They did with the initial vet returns and 50th, but left when it was just a bait and switch. That is the group that GH should have focused on and tried to grow with. That would have been the obvious and intelligent play, knowing who your consumers are. It still makes no sense that Cartini couldn’t figure a way to really resurrect GH and still put their ego, I mean stamp, on it, without decimating it’s history and bringing in so many new characters.

And Harry, I’m with you regarding the influx of more villains. It just means more camp, more nonsense and more stunts.

harry replied August 24th, 2014 at 11:19 pm

Miss Su00, in the future when I wince in disgust at watching what has become of my once favorite daytime serial, I shall take solace in the fact that you are deriving some kind of weird and inexplicable joy from it. I mean it–I am glad GH makes you feel happy.
I still maintain that with the villains outnumbering the heroes, that we are left with no one to root for. I never liked it when The Batman and Robin TV show had The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman on the same show. Yes, this TV show from the late 60′s was supposed to be high camp and so the over population of campy, over-the-top villains not only produced a non character based storyline, it deviated from the interesting villains who were overshadowed by the other villians, thus losing their mysterious sense of intrigue. The same thing is happening on GH, and I must add here that GH is not supposed to be a pure camp adaption of a comic book series.
As it stands I am not rooting for ANYONE because I don’t like ANYONE on GH anymore. Therefore, my interest has not only waned, it is has rusted and as Neil Young once sang,”It’s better to burn out, than it is to rust. Hey, hey, my, my. Rock and Roll (soaps) will (should) never die.”
And GH50? I thank Hades for your all too rare occasional appearances which inject a much needed dose of rationality into our perspectives. As someone who has always been mathematically challenged, I may not always get your mathematical applications when it comes to breaking down the ratings, but I do understand and appreciate the premise behind the equations. So thank you.

Good news for Days, but I’m concerned where they’ll go after November. I don’t like EJami (though I love Sami separately and like EJ separately) and I love Kristen. But they’ve built the story around them for so long that I think they’re going to be grasping for story next year. And Nick/Gabi are gone (though that was in May).

I wish they’d bring back Shawn D, Belle, Claire, JT, Chloe, and Philip. They could do a lot with them.

I think it’s wonderful GH’s rating’s are up no matter what week it’s for I look forward to watching GH every week. I just can’t understand how Day’s ratings improved too when most people deep down know Day’s should have been cancelled when the other soap’s were being cancelled a few years ago maybe if it had been OLTL would still be on the air.

brain..
All the negative grumpy – - nothing is every right or good people,’
well .. imagine being married to one of the grumpies .. frightening, huh..

I love GH ..
Y&R- I tell it like it is.. It sucks .. no need to need write a ”War and Peace” length complaining post about it (I never read the long ones ) just say it sucks, its horrible boring, and the new Billy is gawd awful terrible.. no whining needed- just get to it lol..

(and kill Robin.. no need to write a whiny grumpy book about it, just kill her..

Now– everybody be nice !!

bow your head;
”thank you for my soaps.. soaps are good soaps make me happy kill everyone I don’t like and write the stories just me , Amen ..

well,
Some need the soap to be written just for them.. the way they want it to be..
and when this or that is not written the way they want it to be, they negatively complain (complainers are unpleasant people, mom said so!) over something they can not change..
(Spock would say; not logical)

Now, if it were written the way I would like it–
A Cannibal Serial Killer would kill and eat New Billy, Robin, Dixie Cooney- no complaining needed to make me happy, just kill ‘em and in nasty way, heh
but it won’t happen because others who have really bad taste like those guys..
what can ya do

Oh, Su000… You are one long list of contradictions. No matter, though…I loooove reading your posts; very entertaining. Tune in…Y&R is getting better, (NOT)…..except that tptb should get rid of all characters and start fresh…lol.

harry replied August 25th, 2014 at 11:54 pm

SuOO, you will be happy to read this spoiler.
Helena Cassadine, while looking for her son Stavros in the family’s deep freezer unexpectedly runs discovers Ted Williams’ head.
Helena discovers a way of transplanting Ted Williams head onto the body of Morgan Corinthos who soon is the recipient of many a baseball scholarship. Unfortunately, the fact that Morgan not only has Ted William’s anger management issues teaming in his thawed out head, he has the same issues coming from that the body of that hot head of a man suffering from small man’s compex, Sonny Corrnthos. It doesn’t go well.

jimh(leave it to beaver) replied August 26th, 2014 at 7:10 am

Sorry suOOOO but your evasive way of complaining about complainers as if you are trying not to sound like you’re complaining is still negative complaining(i know because of me daddy tellin’ me so)…lol…Looks like you wont be getting your soaps written and cast the way you want nor will you get your way on this message boards…us unpleasant negative people are here to stay…lol…i do like reading your posts and agree with your serial killer suggestion but i have a better idea: all four soaps join in on a crossover plot involving this serial killer…works for me…lol

The only thing in GH I would want different is a dead Robin, but I wouldn’t want to see her fans crying so Siberia is a good second….
I am a true GH fan who likes it all!! nothing negative here about GH..

And- Y&R sucks, big time! it is gutted and empty..
and that is not a complaint that is a fact and telling it as it is..

–and my mom said it right out too;
complainers are unpleasant people and nobody wants to hang out with them and listen to their whining.. heh..
dont like someone/character just say so and why you want them eaten by serial killer cannibals, that works .. lol
tc ..

The Final Four. Lets watch, criticize, but be grateful they are still on the air. Story lines will come and go, same with characters. My only wish is to have the correct actors play the role. I STILL imagine Billy Miller when I see this dude Burgess read his lines. He is unacceptable as Billy Abbott. There you have it, I’m negative BUT I’m not going top quit watching Y&R AND I will support their advertisers because this soap has been a part of my life for a ZILLION years! Love you Sharon Case!

Today’s episode of DAYS was so good!!! Kate M knocked it out of the park when she confronted Will!!! And she continued her rampage when she went and slapped Sami. I love that Abby is fighting mad and fighting back!!!!! The writing was so tight and focused and interwoven and intertwined….it seemed almost like a play!! There was character development FIRST and plot movement second….Ron Carlivati could take some notes!!! I no longer watch GH because of the vile piece of trash it has become so I am very glad that DAYS is firing on all cylinders!!!

Off topic, as I posted above yesterday, I think-I am hoping that Ava accidently gives Kiki the poisoned chocolate mousse. I can’t stand the character. The actress can’t hold a real, genuine storyline of her own so she is placed in all of these other, random scenes. I can’t take it. I loved how Nina called her “Kooky Kiki” and spoke about how annoying she is; I agree!

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